People acting as if iconoclasm and the raising of statues aren't just mutually dependent extensions of idolatry.
Like it or hate it, this is how history is made
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You think there won't be new statues, to new false masters? You're either ignorant or delusional.
You think this wasn't how your current cast of characters was selected?
You're either ignorant or delusional.
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In a European context, damnatio memoriae goes back to the forming of Imperial Rome at the latest.
It is a textbook political tool.
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I'm not saying you must approve, but it's neither novel nor a "hysteria".
It's very much so a strategy, and it was used extensively by the people whose statues are razed and/or defended today.
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"But how will we remember history without the records?"
Bitch, you think we have records?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation
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